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Buena Vista!!!!! my favorite, this Documentary is beautiful, and i loved it maybe because i always thought that there was nothing better than Music and Cinema at the same time, and GREAT music in a GREAT documentary, is just perfect to me....God bless Win Wendersi know, i know, Leni Riefenstahl's name will be always controversial but if we talk just about cinema and documentaries, hers is one of the most important names...and "Olympia" is a Master Piece in my opinion...and talking about her, there is a very interesting documentary called "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl" , i recommend it.

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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." - Salvador Dalí

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WGA Creates Docu CategoryMichael Moore's Bowling for Columbine will be the first and only documentary ever nominated for the Guild's original screenplay award.

The Writers Guild of America is tweaking its awards system, creating a feature documentary writing award and excluding documentaries eligibility for its original screenplay award.

The new awards will be presented at a reception early next year rather than at the WGA Awards ceremony on February 19.

The change was made partially because the amount of documentaries released this year in Los Angeles has more than doubled, going from 23 to 50. Thirty contain writing credits, while last year, only eight did.

The change means that Michael Moore will not be winning his second WGA award for original screenplay for Fahrenheit 9/11, after winning the original screenplay award in 2002 for Bowling for Columbine. That film is now officially the first and last documentary ever nominated for the guild's original screenplay award.

Moore is unconcerned. He has chosen to submit Fahrenheit 9/11 for a Best Picture Oscar, rather than best documentary.

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“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” - Andy Warhol

Was there a threat that Fahrenheit 9/11 would have been nominated for original screenplay? I thought the narration/writing was the movie's flaw.

The narration is, essentially, "House of Bush, House of Saud," by Craig Unger -- sometimes it's even word-for-word -- and a lot of the old stuff Moore wrote in his book, "Dude where's my country," i.e. the joke about Clinton helping the McVeigh family out of the country.

"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

"As a matter of fact I only work with the feeling of something magical, something seemingly significant. And to keep it magical I don't want to know the story involved, I just want the hypnotic effect of it somehow seeming significant without knowing why." - Len Lye

And, probably the funniest documentary I have ever seen:American Movie: The Making of NorthwesternIt's the cinematic equivelant of Spinal Tap, only for real. And funnier for it.If you can, do watch the end result of "Coven" for extra laughs.